So happens I know a thing or two about Kenworthy’s, seeing as how I spent hundreds of hours working / riding there every year from 1988 through 2004.
We charged $50 for the first year. After that, membership status was zero dollars, but was dependent upon working a MINIMUM of 20 hours a month at the track. The Club funded itself largely through the races, including the National. We never had a cap on membership, but we generally wanted members to live within 60 miles due to the work commitment needed to put on 4 amateur races (400 – 500 entries per race) plus 1 National per year (15k – 20k individual tickets sold per weekend). We also had a private end-of-year GP in the fall.
The work focused mostly on groundskeeping / mowing / fencing / wiring / hay bails / trash pickup (imagine THAT after a 20,000 spectator National weekend…) etc. Work also included race weekend track prep (disking and WATERING) and performing maintenance on equipment.
The Club owned a fleet of weedeaters and heavy duty mowers and most of the track prep equipment (JD 4020s, harrows, cultipackers dump trailers and watering trailers, bushhogs, bail pumps, trenchers, etc…), but we were very selective about who could operate the equipment. Only 2 or 3 people had keys to the dozers AND the diesel fuel tank. This is not counting the equipment Don owned outright. THAT is another conversation.
Chris, feel free to contact me. I would be willing to commit to a facility if it is within an hour of my house, life being what it is these days.